As the year draws to a close, I’m reflecting on what I have learned about leadership from my clients. It has been a year of challenges for most: relentless business demands, continuing change, and higher expectations from them as leaders. For me, 2010 was the year when I let go of theories and focused on […]

This week’s question for Ask the Coach: What advice do you have for a leader whose bosses say needs to exhibit more self-confidence while still being collaborative and authentic? Thank you for this great question. I rarely encounter this issue in my work with CEOs and potential CEOs because people at the top of huge […]

The dramatic failings of business leadership, which contributed significantly to the worst recession in 60 years, have led (as has been widely reported) to much soul-searching at business schools around the world. Should the basic MBA mission be recast with the aim of, among other things: reconfiguring risk management; creating new compensation regimes; improving internal […]

(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future.) Mindlessness — not a good quality for any organization — has led to some questionable assumptions about the need for leaders; namely that 1) those who lead have privileged and reliable abilities and knowledge — what […]

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